Day 55

DINNER: Spaghetti and meat balls.
Meat balls- mince, grated carrot,zucchini, shallots,oats, sauce. Place meatballs on tray and bake in oven.
Cook spaghetti, add meatballs and tomato sauce.
At same time I baked 1/2 chicken to take on picnic tomorrow for Dave's birthday.

Day 54

DINNER: Prawns with cous cous.
Prawns- fry off garlic, ginger and chilli pdr in olive oil. At the last minute cook the prawns in same pan. COUs cous- lightly cook spinach, boil eggs, chop shallots, parsley and coriander, add squeeze of lemon juice. Add olives and fetta cheese.

Day 53

LUNCH: King prawn sandwiches with mayo and salad.
DINNER: Whole snapper in BBQ with baked potatoes and sour crea, guacamole ( avocadoes, garlic, tabasco and lemon juice).
Garnish with chives, thin slices of capsicum.

Day 52

DINNER: Chicken with Penne Pasta.

Cook chicken pieces in BBQ. Cook penne.

In frying pan, cook mustard seeds, garlic, bacon, kumara, zucchini and shallots with a little olive oil. Add cream then pasta.

Day 51

Went to Yamba today. Had a picnic lunch on the headland near the lighthouse, then went to the movies and saw Coco Avant Chanel.

DINNER: BBQ T-bones with warm potato salad ( diced potatoes and sweet potatoes, dressing, shallots, mint) and garden salad (lettuce, rocket, tomato, cucumber and avocado).

Day 50

MAINLY MUSIC: Chocolate Brownies

Melt 125g butter, add 1/2 cup cocoa and few drops vanilla. Beat 3 eggs and 1 cup sugar together until light and frothy.Add choc mix to egg mix.Add 1 cup SR flour, pinch salt and 1 cup chopped walnuts. Cook in slice tin for about 30 mins at 180c.

DINNER: Apricot chicken and rice.

Chicken drumsticks, can apricot nectar, packet French onion soup and few dried apricots.

Bake at about 180c until cooked. Serve with rice, garnish with chopped parsley.

Day 49

CANDIED PEEL: using cumquats we grew in the courtyard.
Slice cumquats finely, remove seeds. Place in bowl. Dissolve 1 teasp. bi-carb soda in 1 cup boiling water- pour onto fruit. Leave for 2 days, drain. Dissolve 1 cup sugar in 1 cup water, pour over fruit and cover. leave for 2 weeks. Dry in single layer in oven, then dip into syrup again and dry again in oven.

DINNER: Crumbed fish with mashed potato and pumpkin, carrot and zucchini.

Day 48

DINNER: Portuguese Chicken with baked potato and salad.

Coat chicken pieces with Portuguese seasoning and cook in BBQ. Put potatoes in BBQ also. When potatoes are cooked add caramelised onions, diced tomato and cucumber, fried egg and grated cheese on top wit dollop of sour cream.

Day 47

DINNER: Mini quiches ...made in muffin tin using frozen puff pastry and filled with beaten eggs, bacon and cheese.

Day 46

Spicy Tomato Sauce: 2.5 kg veges (ie tomatoes, 2 capsicum,2 big pieces ginger,1 onion), 5 cups white sugar,5 cups white vinegar, 1/2 a bulb of garlic, few hot chillies, paprika.
Put all vegetables into blender and blend, put into pan with rest of ingredients. Simmer till consistency of jam.

DINNER: Pork Pasta...cold roast pork cubed, spinach, coriander, parsley, coconut cream, zucchini, shallots and a scoop of spicy tomato relish. Serve with fettucine.

Days 44 and 45

On day 44 we went to Yamba and had a picnic lunch, then went to the movies and saw Samson and Delilah. That night I cooked fritata and salad for dinner. The fritata had 6 eggs, cream, chopped onion, spinach, grated carrot with slices of tomato and grated cheese on top.

The next day for dinner, we hadroast pork in the BBQ with roast potatoes, onion, pumpkin and sweet potato, with peas, beans and gravy.

Day 43

DINNER: BBQ'd sausages with baked potatoes, topped with onion, garlic tomatoes, mushrooms fried in olive oil, with dollop of sour cream, coriander and grated cheese on top.

Day 42

DINNER: Lasagne and salad

MAINLY MUSIC: Caramel Slice:

Base- 1 cup SR flour, 1 cup coconut, 1/2 cup caster sugar, 125g butter. melt butter, add to dry ingredients. Press into slice tin, cook 12 mins then cool.

Filling- Can condensed milk, 20g butter, 2T golden syrup,1 passionfruit. Cook all together few mins, spread onto base...cook further 10 mins.

Day 41

LUNCH: Omelettes with mushrooms, shallots and cheese and toasted Turkish bread with pesto and parmesan, and green salad.

Day 40

LUNCH: Dorey- floured and shallow-fried, with green salad and lemon wedges.

DINNER: Went to Ed and Sharyn's for a BBQ.

Day 39

DINNER: Flake pieces, shallow fried with cous cous and creamy mustard sauce.

Day 38

LUNCH: Pizza with mushrooms, corn,tomato paste, garlic chives, red onion and cheese.

DINNER: Satay Chicken Kebabs with vegetables... mashed potato and pumpkin, and cauliflower and white sauce.

Day 37

DINNER: Chicken pasta in creamy red wine sauce.

-fry onions and garlic, add halved brussels sprouts and mushrooms.

-cut chicken thighs into pieces and fry.

-addd hot paprika, salt and pepper.

-add cream and red wine.

-cook pasta spirals.

- serve chicken with pasta and grated cheese on top.

Our strawberries are ripening now. They are the biggest ones yet!

Day 36

Mainly Music: Today I made savoury scrolls.

Make a scone mix, roll it out, spread bruschetta olive mix, sprinkle with cheese and roll up. cut into pices and place side-by-side on a scone tray, brush with beaten egg and sprinkle with Moroccan seasoning.

DINNER: Spinach/ ricotta canneloni

-fry onions, garlic and spinach.

-add ricotta cheese, salt, pepper and paprika.

-put layer of pasta sauce in casserole dish.

-fill canneloni tubes with ricotta mix, and place on sauce in dish.

-put any remaining filling and sauce over top and sprinkle with cheese.

-bake about 20 mins at 190c.

Day 35

Today we drove home from Lismore.
When we got home we had toasted sandwiches for lunch.
For dinner, we had fish pieces with cajun seasoning and fried rice... the fried rice had roasted pumpkin, onion and garlic, eggs and snap peas, soy sauce, dill and fetta cheese.

Day 34

Today we drove to Anth and Serena's for a sleepover, as it was their birthdays recently. I took a carrot cake for the birthday cake.

For lunch Anth cooked sausages on the barbie, and for dinner, Serena made a lovely lasagne with salad and potato gems.

Today we are having a BIG BIRTHDAY PARTY at Julie's place, so most of this morning was spent preparing food for the party. I made little meringues with fresh whipped cream between them, chocolate crackles and savouries of cheese and pickled onions for the retro sausage dog.

Mum often used to make the meringues whenever she was going somewhere that required her to take a plate.

Day 32

LUNCH: Pizza
Base from Baker's Delight, topped with grilled vegetables, bruschetta topping, and cheese with fresh prawns.

DINNER: 1/2 chicken sprinkled with Portuguese seasoning, cooked in Weber BBQ, and served with peas and beans.

Days 30 and 31

DINNER: Salmon, spinach and fetta penne. (no picture)

Fry red onion, sweet potato, add coriander, spinach,shallots, salmon, cream and chilli powder. Cook penne....add to the salmon mix and serve with cheese on top.

DINNER: Crumbed fish with cous cous.

Cou cous...red onion, snap peas, sultanas, grated carrot, olives, cucumber, fetta cheese, almond flakes, Moroccan seasoning, mint and olive oil.

Day 29

Mainly Music: Apricot and cinnamon slice with green icing ( the colour for today)...

DINNER: Sausages (beef, bush plum and pepperberry gourmet sausages) with mashed potato, sweet potato, steamed cauliflower with parsley sauce, brussels sprouts and zucchini.

Day 28

DINNER: Baked jacket potatoes with crumbed chicken.

Bake potaotoes in BBQ.

Shallow fry crumbed chicken in olive oil. Cut through cooked potato, add sour cream, lettuce, cucumber,shallots, coriander, parsley, tomato, grated cheese, then slices of the chicken on top.

BIRD CAKE: this cake is baked for the finches...the egg shells are crushed in the cake with the other ingredients...great for the birds but a bit gritty for us!!

Day 27

DINNER: Vegetable soup with savoury muffins....
Soup- sweet potato, pumpkin, Italian parsley, spinach, onion,salt and pepper...cook till tender, blend with stick blender and add a dob of butter.
Muffins- SR flour, plain flour, salt, mixed herbs, 2 eggs, 1 cup milk,35g parmesan and grated tasty cheese.


LUNCH: Pizza topped with tomato paste, left-over chicken and stuffing, fried onions, garlic and mushrooms, parsley,olives, eggs marjoram basil cheese on top.

Day 26

LUNCH: Green prawns seasoned and shallow-fried, on wholegrain rolls with greens from vege garden, sour cream and tomato. Dave also had egg on top of his.

DINNER: Meat and vegetable lasagne...layers of pumpkin,onion, mushroom, broccoli, capsicum, meat with tomato sauce and lasagne sheets.

Day 25

LUNCH: Chicken and Egg Salad

The chicken was left-over from last night.

The eggs were from our chooks.

Two types of lettuce, coriander and parsley were from our vege garden.

DINNER: Cajun Fish (Dorey) with brown Rice Other ingredients of salad were..

Served with tomato slices and olives with a dollop Tomato, cucumber, capsicum,

of sour cream on top. Haloumi cheese and dressing.

Day 24

LUNCH: Toasted foccacia with sour cream, apple and tomato chutney, cold lamb, tomato, cucumber and grated cheese.

DINNER: Chicken and Jacket Potatoes and veges

Chicken was cooked in the Weber BBQ, along with the potatoes and pumpkin.

Stuffing... mix in food processor- bread roll, dried apricots, onion, salt and pepper, Moroccan seasoning, drizzle of olive oil.

Served with coulflower and parsley sauce, carrots and zucchini.

Day 23

DINNER: Curried Lamb
Fry onion, capsicum, sweet potato
Add Tandoori curry pdr..(mixed with can
of coconut cream and some water)
Add chopped cold lamb pieces
Add frozen peas
Serve on rice..cheese on top

Day 22

MAINLY MUSIC: 6 Cup Slice

1 cup SR flour

1 cup sugar

1 cup coconut

1 cup milk

1 cup sultanas

1 cup choc chips

2T cocoa

Iced with pink icing for our Pink Day (A bit bright!)

DINNER: Pizza

I used a frozen base this time

Toppings...tomato paste, mushrooms sliced,

olives, fried onions, slices of cold lamb

grated cheese

mint...top with sour cream.

Day 21

LUNCH: Made rolls using sheets of puff pastry,

spread with ham, cheese and tomato, roll up,

cut into pieces, brush with milk and sprinkle

with herbs. Bake in hot oven about 10 mins.

DINNER: Arrived home late in afternoon from

Wally, so cooked something quick and easy...

Baked crumbed fish pieces with salad,

with a bottle of Cascade Blonde.

Day 20

After church we drove Tessa home to Byron bay. We then made ham rolls and coffee in the car on the way to Wally.
For dinner, we just had heated up UFO on toasted rolls, with slices of cold lamb, and cheese on top.

Day 19

MORNING TEA: Pikelets

2 cups flour

pinch of salt

1 T caster sugar

1 egg

30g butter

1 1/2 cups milk

Mix all together in bowl using wire whisk

until thick, smooth batter.

DINNER: Greek Lamb in BabyQ with Roast Vegetables.. ( potatoes, pumpkin, sweet

potato, capsicum, tomatoes, carrots...

roughly chop veges in reasonably big pieces,

drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle with salt and

pepper, mint and dill). Serve with peas/beans.